Updated 1:03 pm, Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Northbound I-95 traffic is backed up near Exit 38 in Milford following a one-car accident on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016.

Northbound I-95 traffic is backed up near Exit 38 in Milford following a one-car accident on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016.

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Kelvin Quintero and Noel Figueroa- Flores, both 20, of New Haven were arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 30 by Milford police folllowing a chase that ended on I-95 with a crash involving a Milford police vehicle. Both suspects and the officer suffered minor injujries. less

Kelvin Quintero and Noel Figueroa- Flores, both 20, of New Haven were arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 30 by Milford police folllowing a chase that ended on I-95 with a crash involving a Milford police vehicle. ... more

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Kelvin Quintero and Noel Figueroa- Flores, both 20, of New Haven were arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 30 by Milford police folllowing a chase that ended on I-95 with a crash involving a Milford police vehicle. Both suspects and the officer suffered minor injujries. less

Kelvin Quintero and Noel Figueroa- Flores, both 20, of New Haven were arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 30 by Milford police folllowing a chase that ended on I-95 with a crash involving a Milford police vehicle. ... more

Two suspects are in custody and one is still at large following a police chase early Wednesday that ended when the suspects crashed into a Milford Police Department SUV on the northbound side of I-95 near Exit 40 in Milford.

The officer and the police canine in the SUV were not injured, Officer Michael DeVito said.

Police had been dispatched to the area of Beaverbrook Road and Naugatuck Avenue at 4:45 a.m. on a report of people loading equipment into a van, Officer Joseph Dempsey said. “Milford has received a large number of residential garage and shed burglaries of a similar nature,’’ he said.

Officers arriving in the area saw the suspects’ van heading south on Naugatuck Avenue toward Bridgeport Avenue and attempted to stop it, the spokesman said, but the suspects eventually got onto I-95 northbound near the mall.

Shortly after entering the highway, the van’s driver lost control and the vehicle spun out, striking a guardrail and the Milford police vehicle, Dempsey said. All three suspects got out and fled on foot, but two were located by an officer assisted by the police canine, Diesel.

Kelvin Quintero and Noel Figueroa- Flores, both 20 and residents of Chapel Street in New Haven, were taken into custody while a third suspect, still at large is described as a light complected white or Hispanic man who was wearing jeans and a red hooded sweatshirt when he fled from police. Anyone with information about that suspect may reach Milford police at 203-878-6551.

Both Quintero and Figueroa-Flores were treated at Milford Hospital for injuries from the motor vehicle accident, and Quintero was also treated for a bite from the police dog. The officer in the police vehicle that was struck was also later treated for minor injuries, Dempsey said.

“Further investigation showed that Quintero has two active warrants for failing to appear in court out of New Haven and Waterbury; and Figueroa-Flores has one active warrant for failing to appear in court out of Orange,’’ the police spokesman said.

The two suspects have been charged with third-degree larceny and conspiracy, third-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit that crime and interfering with arrest. Quintero is being held on a $225,500 bond and Figueroa-Flores is being held on a $210,500 bond.

The closing of two of the three northbound lanes for about 30 minutes had traffic backed up about a mile to Exit 38, with traffic moving at less than 10 miles an hour, according to data from DOT traffic cameras. One of the lanes reopened after the crashed vehicle was towed from the scene.